My name is Eluned Glyn, I am a Welsh Ceramic Designer and Maker, living and working in Cardiff, UK.
My background in Fine Art, Ceramic and an interest in all things Cubist has led me to my current Collection called Minimus Maximus.
My own sketches inspire me and influence the process I use incorporating pieces from second-hand shops. By using recycled pieces my work echoes old china from my grandmother's dresser that comes to life again in the reconstruction process.
I am inspired by the form of classic ceramics from the 20th and 21st Century. The modernist and cubist movements have been my points of reference, using their concept of a well designed form with facets and angles as inspiration.
I take exisiting vessels and recreate the forms that reflect not only the garish over-decorated 19th Century vessels, also, the cubist theory of the 1910s and the deconstructivist period of the 1980s. This is explored through the cohesive integration of form, drawing and surface pattern.
It is the marriage of form and function that intruiges me and the distortion of the domestic object which is familiar yet foreign in form.
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